01/17/1954 AD born

Kennedy was born at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., the third of eleven children of senator and attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, née Skakel. He is a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy.

Kennedy grew up at his family's homes in McLean, VA and Cape Cod, MA. He was nine years old when his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963, and 14 years old when his father was assassinated while running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.

Kennedy learned of his father's shooting when he was at Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boarding school in North Bethesda, Maryland. A few hours later, he flew to Los Angeles on vice-president Hubert Humphrey's plane, along with his elder sister Kathleen and elder brother Joseph, and was with his father when he died. Kennedy was a pallbearer in his father's funeral, where he spoke and read excerpts from his father's speeches at the Mass commemorating his death at Arlington National Cemetery.

After his father's death, Kennedy lived with a surrogate family in Cambridge, MA, and graduated from the Palfrey Street School, a day school in Watertown, MA.

Before attending Palfrey, Kennedy was kicked out of two boarding schools: Millbrook in upstate NY and Pomfret in CT for using drugs.

In August 1970, Kennedy and his cousin Bobby Shriver were arrested in Barnstable, MA, for marijuana possession and were placed on 13 months' probation.

Washington, D.C.

Lattitude: 38.9072° N
Longitude: 77.0369° W
Region: North America

Modern Day United States

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